Sentence examples for including convening from inspiring English sources

In Minnesota, carrying out a shutdown — and a relatively ordinary one, as these things go — has turned out to be a whole new, time-consuming government function, including convening the special hearings to weigh exceptions to the shutdown rules.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil proposed a series of bold changes to the country's political system on Monday, including convening a constituent assembly apparently aimed at overhauling Congress and campaign-finance methods, in an effort to assuage the concerns of protesters who have stunned the nation this month with their anti-establishment demonstrations.

This paper examines how differences in regional characteristics and lessons learned influenced three important elements of the stakeholder process, including convening the stakeholders, managing stakeholder engagement, and integrating input from managing state agencies.

Staunton and his colleagues had ambitious objectives for this tournament, including convening a "Chess Parliament" to complete the standardisation of various rules and procedures for competitive chess and for writing about chess.

The 2010 NPT Review Conference had offered hopeful signs with inclusion in its final document of specific steps towards the Zone's establishment, including convening a conference for all regional states by the end of 2012 on the creation of such a zone.

"These ideas are based on the actions many of you have already taken or supported," the memo read, "including convening community conversations in NBA markets to engage young people, parents, community leaders and law enforcement in a candid dialogue".

Several of her more interesting ideas include convening of multilateral and bilateral dialogues with China on the issue, getting parliaments involved in passing resolutions on the issue and even engaging social media.

Potential ballot-box initiatives include convening a constitutional convention — which would, among other things, revisit the two-thirds majority required for state lawmakers to increase taxes or pass a budget — and legalizing marijuana to tax its sales (then, at the very least, students wouldn't care if fees were raised).

Both the UKMRC framework and IPDAS guideline guided the initial stages of the development of the PANDAs PtDA which included: convening an expert panel, comprising key stakeholders; conducting a needs assessment study; and searching for evidence for decision support interventions.

These included convening congresses annually, imposing a 50% limit on the proportion of delegates who hold official rank and electing fewer delegates, in order to cut costs and encourage genuine debate (of which there is currently none).

After revising the country experiences, it was recognised at the expert meeting that each phase requires a tailored response: Initial response during the alert phase includes: convening local dengue committees; activation of syndromic surveillance if not done on a routine basis; enhancement of routine activities (such as vector control and alerts for hospitals).